Monday, February 6, 2012

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.


The Nature of Karma

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
Be gentle first with yourself - if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
- Anonymous
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings,
but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
- William James
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
- Mark Twain
Are you angry that others disappoint you? remember you cannot depend upon yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
When you hold resentment toward another,
you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel.
Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
- Catherine Ponder
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event,
then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
- William James
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished:
for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
- Epicurus
A man is born alone and dies alone;
and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone;
and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

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